http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/03/peugeot_bb1_blighty_bound/
http://www.topspeed.com/cars/peugeot/2010-peugeot-bb1-ar79161.html
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/peugeot-concepts/peugeot-bb1-scooter-car/243281/pictures/peugeot-bb1-scooter-car.aspx

I rather think I want one.  I might throw the body panels away, mind.

bobharvey  wrote:

> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/03/peugeot_bb1_blighty_bound/
> http://www.topspeed.com/cars/peugeot/2010-peugeot-bb1-ar79161.html
> http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/peugeot-concepts/peugeot-bb1-scooter-car
> /243281/pictures/peugeot-bb1-scooter-car.aspx
> 
> I rather think I want one.  I might throw the body panels away, mind.

Looks like it's going backwards - weird design, but strangely compelling
- a bit like the 2CV, or the Ami 6.
-- 
Rob - Shropshire
So many cats,
So few recipes...

Rob wrote:
> bobharvey  wrote:
>
>> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/03/peugeot_bb1_blighty_bound/
>> http://www.topspeed.com/cars/peugeot/2010-peugeot-bb1-ar79161.html
>> http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/peugeot-concepts/peugeot-bb1-scooter-car
>> /243281/pictures/peugeot-bb1-scooter-car.aspx
>>
>> I rather think I want one.  I might throw the body panels away, mind.
>
> Looks like it's going backwards - weird design, but strangely
> compelling

It compels me to avert my eyes.

-- 
Malc

Rusted and ropy.
Dog-eared old copy.
Vintage and classic,
or just plain Jurassic:
all words to describe me.

malc wrote (apparently) in uk.rec.sheds on Tue 03 Nov 2009
21:52:19: 

> Rob wrote:
>> bobharvey  wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/03/peugeot_bb1_blighty_boun
>>> d/ 
>>> http://www.topspeed.com/cars/peugeot/2010-peugeot-bb1-ar79161.ht
>>> ml 
>>> http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/peugeot-concepts/peugeot-bb1-s
>>> cooter-car /243281/pictures/peugeot-bb1-scooter-car.aspx
>>>
>>> I rather think I want one.  I might throw the body panels away,
>>> mind. 
>>
>> Looks like it's going backwards - weird design, but strangely
>> compelling
> 
> It compels me to avert my eyes.
> 
Presumably the people in the back are kneeling behind those in the 
front? It'd be like my first car, a Mini, (old) T-reg, where going at 
30mph was scary, and 55mph would've been for a dare. That windscreen 
looks kind-of insubstantial.

Just hope the front brakes are not too keen...
-- 
MrGuest
Always, seemingly, on the road to nowhere

"Mr Guest"  wrote in message 
news:Xns9CB8E54FBA933mrguest@130.133.1.4...
> malc wrote (apparently) in uk.rec.sheds on Tue 03 Nov 
> 2009
> 21:52:19:
>
>> Rob wrote:
>>> bobharvey  wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/03/peugeot_bb1_blighty_boun
>>>> d/
>>>> http://www.topspeed.com/cars/peugeot/2010-peugeot-bb1-ar79161.ht
>>>> ml
>>>> http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/peugeot-concepts/peugeot-bb1-s
>>>> cooter-car 
>>>> /243281/pictures/peugeot-bb1-scooter-car.aspx
>>>>
>>>> I rather think I want one.  I might throw the body 
>>>> panels away,
>>>> mind.
>>>
>>> Looks like it's going backwards - weird design, but 
>>> strangely
>>> compelling
>>
>> It compels me to avert my eyes.
>>
> Presumably the people in the back are kneeling behind 
> those in the
> front? It'd be like my first car, a Mini, (old) 
> T-reg, where going at
> 30mph was scary, and 55mph would've been for a dare. 
> That windscreen
> looks kind-of insubstantial.
>
> Just hope the front brakes are not too keen...

Reminds me of my brothers first car, a bubblecar. He 
managed to roll it at a roundabout. IIRC the steering 
wheel was fixed to the front (and only) door. Happy 
daze?

In uk.rec.sheds,  (Bertie Doe) wrote in
::

>
>"Mr Guest"  wrote in message 
>news:Xns9CB8E54FBA933mrguest@130.133.1.4...
>> malc wrote (apparently) in uk.rec.sheds on Tue 03 Nov 
>> 2009
>> 21:52:19:
>>
>>> Rob wrote:
>>>> bobharvey  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/03/peugeot_bb1_blighty_boun
>>>>> d/
>>>>> http://www.topspeed.com/cars/peugeot/2010-peugeot-bb1-ar79161.ht
>>>>> ml
>>>>> http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/peugeot-concepts/peugeot-bb1-s
>>>>> cooter-car 
>>>>> /243281/pictures/peugeot-bb1-scooter-car.aspx
>>>>>
>>>>> I rather think I want one.  I might throw the body 
>>>>> panels away,
>>>>> mind.
>>>>
>>>> Looks like it's going backwards - weird design, but 
>>>> strangely
>>>> compelling
>>>
>>> It compels me to avert my eyes.
>>>
>> Presumably the people in the back are kneeling behind 
>> those in the
>> front? It'd be like my first car, a Mini, (old) 
>> T-reg, where going at
>> 30mph was scary, and 55mph would've been for a dare. 
>> That windscreen
>> looks kind-of insubstantial.
>>
>> Just hope the front brakes are not too keen...
>
>Reminds me of my brothers first car, a bubblecar. He 
>managed to roll it at a roundabout. IIRC the steering 
>wheel was fixed to the front (and only) door. Happy 
>daze?

They could be traps for the unwary- some of them had no reverse, and I
remember seeing more than one person bowl up to a pub, say, and park in
a traditional manner next to a wall - and then realise they could
neither reverse nor get out.
-- 
Marc

Structure is not always stricture (Vicki Rosenzweig)

On 4 Nov, 01:53, Znep  wrote:
> In uk.rec.sheds,  (Bertie Doe) wrote in
> ::
>
>
>
>
>
> >"Mr Guest"  wrote in message
> >news:Xns9CB8E54FBA933mrguest@130.133.1.4...
> >> malc wrote (apparently) in uk.rec.sheds on Tue 03 Nov
> >> 2009
> >> 21:52:19:
>
> >>> Rob wrote:
> >>>> bobharvey  wrote:
>
> >>>>>http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/03/peugeot_bb1_blighty_boun
> >>>>> d/
> >>>>>http://www.topspeed.com/cars/peugeot/2010-peugeot-bb1-ar79161.ht
> >>>>> ml
> >>>>>http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/peugeot-concepts/peugeot-bb1-s
> >>>>> cooter-car
> >>>>> /243281/pictures/peugeot-bb1-scooter-car.aspx
>
> >>>>> I rather think I want one.  I might throw the body
> >>>>> panels away,
> >>>>> mind.
>
> >>>> Looks like it's going backwards - weird design, but
> >>>> strangely
> >>>> compelling
>
> >>> It compels me to avert my eyes.
>
> >> Presumably the people in the back are kneeling behind
> >> those in the
> >> front? It'd be like my first car, a Mini, (old)
> >> T-reg, where going at
> >> 30mph was scary, and 55mph would've been for a dare.
> >> That windscreen
> >> looks kind-of insubstantial.
>
> >> Just hope the front brakes are not too keen...
>
> >Reminds me of my brothers first car, a bubblecar. He
> >managed to roll it at a roundabout. IIRC the steering
> >wheel was fixed to the front (and only) door. Happy
> >daze?
>
> They could be traps for the unwary- some of them had no reverse, and I
> remember seeing more than one person bowl up to a pub, say, and park in
> a traditional manner next to a wall - and then realise they could
> neither reverse nor get out.

I had two too.  You could roll back the fabric sunroof and get out
through that, and there was a chrome rear bumper that was more like a
handle, and high enough to molish it easy to pick it up and turn it
round.  The handbrake only jbexed on the rear wheel.

The message 
from Znep  contains these words:

> They could be traps for the unwary- some of them had no reverse, and I
> remember seeing more than one person bowl up to a pub, say, and park in
> a traditional manner next to a wall - and then realise they could
> neither reverse nor get out.

That's where you swing the little cover aside and using the detatched
steering column punt yourself clear.

-- 
Skipweasel
Not to be sniffed at.

bobharvey wrote:
> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/03/peugeot_bb1_blighty_bound/
> http://www.topspeed.com/cars/peugeot/2010-peugeot-bb1-ar79161.html
> http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/peugeot-concepts/peugeot-bb1-scooter-car/243281/pictures/peugeot-bb1-scooter-car.aspx
> 
> I rather think I want one.  I might throw the body panels away, mind.

"environmentally friendly vehicle par excellence and emits no loud noise 
outside the vehicle, and above all no pollutant emissions
owing to the fact that it consumes no fossil fuels."

So you can't charge it from the mains then?

-- 
nev

Znep wrote:

>> Reminds me of my brothers first car, a bubblecar. He 
>> managed to roll it at a roundabout. IIRC the steering 
>> wheel was fixed to the front (and only) door. Happy 
>> daze?
> 
> They could be traps for the unwary- some of them had no reverse, and I
> remember seeing more than one person bowl up to a pub, say, and park in
> a traditional manner next to a wall - and then realise they could
> neither reverse nor get out.

ISTR that John Craven claims that story, from when he was a student.

-- 
JonG
... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that
  means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube,
  one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big
  enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in
  one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in
  the same way. And the fools know it. Oliver Wendell Holmes

bobharvey wrote:
> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/03/peugeot_bb1_blighty_bound/

So how does the driver manage when there is no rear-seat passenger to 
provide the lap to sit on?

-- 
JonG
... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that
  means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube,
  one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big
  enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in
  one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in
  the same way. And the fools know it. Oliver Wendell Holmes

On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:46:40 -0000, JonG  
 wrote:

> bobharvey wrote:
>> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/03/peugeot_bb1_blighty_bound/
>
> So how does the driver manage when there is no rear-seat passenger to  
> provide the lap to sit on?
>
I certainly looks like their desperately trying to not show how pokey it  
is.

-- 
"Say a wise saying, and your name will live forever." - Anonymous

On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:03:54 -0000, Esra Sdrawkcab  wrote:

> On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:46:40 -0000, JonG  
>  wrote:
>
>> bobharvey wrote:
>>> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/03/peugeot_bb1_blighty_bound/
>>
>> So how does the driver manage when there is no rear-seat passenger to  
>> provide the lap to sit on?
>>
> I certainly looks like their desperately trying to not show how pokey it  
> is.
>
s/I/It/

(no, Frank)


-- 
"Say a wise saying, and your name will live forever." - Anonymous

In news:449f62a9-3e5e-4341-b2ad-16cd97b20644@a31g2000yqn.googlegroups.com,
bobharvey  tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us:
> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/03/peugeot_bb1_blighty_bound/
> http://www.topspeed.com/cars/peugeot/2010-peugeot-bb1-ar79161.html
> http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/peugeot-concepts/peugeot-bb1-scooter-car/243281/pictures/peugeot-bb1-scooter-car.aspx
>
> I rather think I want one.  I might throw the body panels away, mind.

"visually arresting" is clearly a code, meaning "it looks as though Fat 
Bloke from down the pub has sat on it".  Kill it.

Kill it with fire.

-- 
Dave Larrington
<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
Kill, kill, kill, stab, murder and dispatch.

"bobharvey"  wrote in message 
news:cdeb9fff-67ed-4613-86e9-894d460a8a80@r24g2000yqd.googlegroups.com...
On 4 Nov, 01:53, Znep 
 wrote:
> In uk.rec.sheds, (Bertie Doe) wrote in
> ::
>
>
>
>
>
> >"Mr Guest"  wrote in 
> >message
> >news:Xns9CB8E54FBA933mrguest@130.133.1.4...
> >> malc wrote (apparently) in uk.rec.sheds on Tue 03 
> >> Nov
> >> 2009
> >> 21:52:19:
>
> >>> Rob wrote:
> >>>> bobharvey  wrote:
>
> >>>>>http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/03/peugeot_bb1_blighty_boun
> >>>>> d/
> >>>>>http://www.topspeed.com/cars/peugeot/2010-peugeot-bb1-ar79161.ht
> >>>>> ml
> >>>>>http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/peugeot-concepts/peugeot-bb1-s
> >>>>> cooter-car
> >>>>> /243281/pictures/peugeot-bb1-scooter-car.aspx
>
> >>>>> I rather think I want one. I might throw the 
> >>>>> body
> >>>>> panels away,
> >>>>> mind.
>
> >>>> Looks like it's going backwards - weird design, 
> >>>> but
> >>>> strangely
> >>>> compelling
>
> >>> It compels me to avert my eyes.
>
> >> Presumably the people in the back are kneeling 
> >> behind
> >> those in the
> >> front? It'd be like my first car, a Mini, (old)
> >> T-reg, where going at
> >> 30mph was scary, and 55mph would've been for a 
> >> dare.
> >> That windscreen
> >> looks kind-of insubstantial.
>
> >> Just hope the front brakes are not too keen...
>
> >Reminds me of my brothers first car, a bubblecar. He
> >managed to roll it at a roundabout. IIRC the 
> >steering
> >wheel was fixed to the front (and only) door. Happy
> >daze?
>
> They could be traps for the unwary- some of them had 
> no reverse, and I
> remember seeing more than one person bowl up to a 
> pub, say, and park in
> a traditional manner next to a wall - and then 
> realise they could
> neither reverse nor get out.

.I had two too.  You could roll back the fabric sunroof 
and get out
.through that, and there was a chrome rear bumper that 
was more like a
.handle, and high enough to molish it easy to pick it 
up and turn it
.round.  The handbrake only jbexed on the rear wheel.

Looking thru the Utube, I realised he owned an Isetta. 
Also ugly but woaa 13hp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFEWiUbmZW8&feature=related

In uk.rec.sheds,  (bobharvey) wrote in
::

>On 4 Nov, 01:53, Znep  wrote:
>> In uk.rec.sheds,  (Bertie Doe) wrote in
>> ::
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >"Mr Guest"  wrote in message
>> >news:Xns9CB8E54FBA933mrguest@130.133.1.4...
>> >> malc wrote (apparently) in uk.rec.sheds on Tue 03 Nov
>> >> 2009
>> >> 21:52:19:
>>
>> >>> Rob wrote:
>> >>>> bobharvey  wrote:
>>
>> >>>>>http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/03/peugeot_bb1_blighty_boun
>> >>>>> d/
>> >>>>>http://www.topspeed.com/cars/peugeot/2010-peugeot-bb1-ar79161.ht
>> >>>>> ml
>> >>>>>http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/peugeot-concepts/peugeot-bb1-s
>> >>>>> cooter-car
>> >>>>> /243281/pictures/peugeot-bb1-scooter-car.aspx
>>
>> >>>>> I rather think I want one.  I might throw the body
>> >>>>> panels away,
>> >>>>> mind.
>>
>> >>>> Looks like it's going backwards - weird design, but
>> >>>> strangely
>> >>>> compelling
>>
>> >>> It compels me to avert my eyes.
>>
>> >> Presumably the people in the back are kneeling behind
>> >> those in the
>> >> front? It'd be like my first car, a Mini, (old)
>> >> T-reg, where going at
>> >> 30mph was scary, and 55mph would've been for a dare.
>> >> That windscreen
>> >> looks kind-of insubstantial.
>>
>> >> Just hope the front brakes are not too keen...
>>
>> >Reminds me of my brothers first car, a bubblecar. He
>> >managed to roll it at a roundabout. IIRC the steering
>> >wheel was fixed to the front (and only) door. Happy
>> >daze?
>>
>> They could be traps for the unwary- some of them had no reverse, and I
>> remember seeing more than one person bowl up to a pub, say, and park in
>> a traditional manner next to a wall - and then realise they could
>> neither reverse nor get out.
>
>I had two too.  You could roll back the fabric sunroof and get out
>through that, 

Sunroof?  I never saw one of the *posh* models. 

>and there was a chrome rear bumper that was more like a
>handle, and high enough to molish it easy to pick it up and turn it
>round.  

But you needed to be out of the car to do that- bit of a bootstrapping
problem.  It's a mistake that I suspect most drivers made only once.
-- 
Marc

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. 
 The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, 
  but the surest is with technicians  -       George Pompidou

In uk.rec.sheds,  (JonG) wrote in
<00582d2d$0$1591$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>::

>Znep wrote:
>
>>> Reminds me of my brothers first car, a bubblecar. He 
>>> managed to roll it at a roundabout. IIRC the steering 
>>> wheel was fixed to the front (and only) door. Happy 
>>> daze?
>> 
>> They could be traps for the unwary- some of them had no reverse, and I
>> remember seeing more than one person bowl up to a pub, say, and park in
>> a traditional manner next to a wall - and then realise they could
>> neither reverse nor get out.
>
>ISTR that John Craven claims that story, from when he was a student.

I've seen it done, a couple of times - I suspect with new owners.
Eventually, we stopped laughing long enough to pull the car away from
the wall.
-- 
Marc

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. 
 The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, 
  but the surest is with technicians  -       George Pompidou

Znep wrote (apparently) in uk.rec.sheds on Wed 04 Nov 2009
15:48:06: 

> In uk.rec.sheds,  (JonG) wrote in
> <00582d2d$0$1591$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>::
> 
>>Znep wrote:
>>
>>>> Reminds me of my brothers first car, a bubblecar. He 
>>>> managed to roll it at a roundabout. IIRC the steering 
>>>> wheel was fixed to the front (and only) door. Happy 
>>>> daze?
>>> 
>>> They could be traps for the unwary- some of them had no
>>> reverse, and I remember seeing more than one person bowl up to
>>> a pub, say, and park in a traditional manner next to a wall -
>>> and then realise they could neither reverse nor get out.
>>
>>ISTR that John Craven claims that story, from when he was a
>>student. 
> 
> I've seen it done, a couple of times - I suspect with new owners.
> Eventually, we stopped laughing long enough to pull the car away
> from the wall.

What, several hours later?
-- 
MrGuest
Always, seemingly, on the road to nowhere

In uk.rec.sheds,  (Mr Guest) wrote in
::

>Znep wrote (apparently) in uk.rec.sheds on Wed 04 Nov 2009
>15:48:06: 
>
>> In uk.rec.sheds,  (JonG) wrote in
>> <00582d2d$0$1591$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>::
>> 
>>>Znep wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Reminds me of my brothers first car, a bubblecar. He 
>>>>> managed to roll it at a roundabout. IIRC the steering 
>>>>> wheel was fixed to the front (and only) door. Happy 
>>>>> daze?
>>>> 
>>>> They could be traps for the unwary- some of them had no
>>>> reverse, and I remember seeing more than one person bowl up to
>>>> a pub, say, and park in a traditional manner next to a wall -
>>>> and then realise they could neither reverse nor get out.
>>>
>>>ISTR that John Craven claims that story, from when he was a
>>>student. 
>> 
>> I've seen it done, a couple of times - I suspect with new owners.
>> Eventually, we stopped laughing long enough to pull the car away
>> from the wall.
>
>What, several hours later?

Pints, I think were the unit of measure.
-- 
Marc

"Computer models cannot be fooled by an arrow diagram backed by a rhetorically compelling word salad."
- (Geroge von Dassow and Eli Meir)

In news:kt94f5hgstdi7c3od4qf3dk83iares3cqr@4ax.com,
Znep  tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell 
us:
> In uk.rec.sheds,  (Mr Guest) wrote in
> ::
>
>> Znep wrote (apparently) in uk.rec.sheds on Wed 04 Nov 2009
>> 15:48:06:
>>
>>> In uk.rec.sheds,  (JonG) wrote in
>>> <00582d2d$0$1591$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>::
>>>
>>>> Znep wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Reminds me of my brothers first car, a bubblecar. He
>>>>>> managed to roll it at a roundabout. IIRC the steering
>>>>>> wheel was fixed to the front (and only) door. Happy
>>>>>> daze?
>>>>>
>>>>> They could be traps for the unwary- some of them had no
>>>>> reverse, and I remember seeing more than one person bowl up to
>>>>> a pub, say, and park in a traditional manner next to a wall -
>>>>> and then realise they could neither reverse nor get out.
>>>>
>>>> ISTR that John Craven claims that story, from when he was a
>>>> student.
>>>
>>> I've seen it done, a couple of times - I suspect with new owners.
>>> Eventually, we stopped laughing long enough to pull the car away
>>> from the wall.
>>
>> What, several hours later?
>
> Pints, I think were the unit of measure.

A similar state of affairs may be encountered by the cyclist foolish enough 
to clip into Shimano SPD pedals with his toes pointing towards the rear of 
the bicycle in that, once attached, becoming detached requires the services 
of an assistant to poke the springy bits of the pedal with a screwdriver. 
An acquaintance  - we shall call him "Jamie", because that is his name - 
once did this while demonstrating that he could ride a bicycle while sitting 
on the handlebars facing backwards.

A few months later he did it again, but instead of gathering around the 
stricken fellow, wielding tools, we propped him up against the wall of the 
pub and went back in for another pint.

-- 
Dave Larrington
<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
Pathetic earthlings - who will save you now?

Dave Larrington  wrote
>In news:kt94f5hgstdi7c3od4qf3dk83iares3cqr@4ax.com,
>Znep  tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell 
>us:
>> In uk.rec.sheds,  (Mr Guest) wrote in
>> ::
>>> Znep wrote (apparently) in uk.rec.sheds on Wed 04 Nov 2009
>>> 15:48:06:
>>>> In uk.rec.sheds,  (JonG) wrote in
>>>> <00582d2d$0$1591$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>::
>>>>> Znep wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Reminds me of my brothers first car, a bubblecar. He
>>>>>>> managed to roll it at a roundabout. IIRC the steering
>>>>>>> wheel was fixed to the front (and only) door. Happy
>>>>>>> daze?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> They could be traps for the unwary- some of them had no
>>>>>> reverse, and I remember seeing more than one person bowl up to
>>>>>> a pub, say, and park in a traditional manner next to a wall -
>>>>>> and then realise they could neither reverse nor get out.
>>>>>
>>>>> ISTR that John Craven claims that story, from when he was a
>>>>> student.
>>>>
>>>> I've seen it done, a couple of times - I suspect with new owners.
>>>> Eventually, we stopped laughing long enough to pull the car away
>>>> from the wall.
>>>
>>> What, several hours later?
>>
>> Pints, I think were the unit of measure.
>
>A similar state of affairs may be encountered by the cyclist foolish enough 
>to clip into Shimano SPD pedals with his toes pointing towards the rear of 
>the bicycle in that, once attached, becoming detached requires the services 
>of an assistant to poke the springy bits of the pedal with a screwdriver. 
>An acquaintance  - we shall call him "Jamie", because that is his name - 
>once did this while demonstrating that he could ride a bicycle while sitting 
>on the handlebars facing backwards.
>
>A few months later he did it again, but instead of gathering around the 
>stricken fellow, wielding tools, we propped him up against the wall of the 
>pub and went back in for another pint.
>
Did you bring out a erserfuvat nebzngvp fhpphyrag cvag for him, and
place it juuuust out of his reach?
-- 
Roger Hunt

On 03/11/09 21:38, bobharvey wrote:

> I rather think I want one.  I might throw the body panels away, mind.

Or this

<http://www.thedesignblog.org/entry/nissan-v2g-vehicle-is-a-grid-friendly-concept>

In news:cNtiWLA$5t8KFwAz@nospam.demon.co.uk,
Roger Hunt  tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell 
us:
> Dave Larrington  wrote

>> A similar state of affairs may be encountered by the cyclist foolish
>> enough to clip into Shimano SPD pedals with his toes pointing
>> towards the rear of the bicycle in that, once attached, becoming
>> detached requires the services of an assistant to poke the springy
>> bits of the pedal with a screwdriver. An acquaintance  - we shall
>> call him "Jamie", because that is his name - once did this while
>> demonstrating that he could ride a bicycle while sitting on the
>> handlebars facing backwards.
>>
>> A few months later he did it again, but instead of gathering around
>> the stricken fellow, wielding tools, we propped him up against the
>> wall of the pub and went back in for another pint.
>>
> Did you bring out a erserfuvat nebzngvp fhpphyrag cvag for him, and
> place it juuuust out of his reach?

Nah, it was too cold outside for that...

-- 
Dave Larrington
<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
(You're fired - Ed).

On 6 Nov, 07:39, Sunny Bard  wrote:
> Or this
> <http://www.thedesignblog.org/entry/nissan-v2g-vehicle-is-a-grid-frien...>

why the gimmicks?  hubless wheels, and the stupid little front legs,
have nothing to do with the function.  Bike wheels, that is what it
needs.

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 01:48:18 -0800 (PST)
bobharvey  wrote:

> On 6 Nov, 07:39, Sunny Bard  wrote:
> > Or this
> > <http://www.thedesignblog.org/entry/nissan-v2g-vehicle-is-a-grid-frien...>
> 
> why the gimmicks?  hubless wheels, and the stupid little front legs,
> have nothing to do with the function.  Bike wheels, that is what it
> needs.

	They're so you can tell it's a concept vehicle untainted by
considerations of cost and practicality.

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